Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, after the Jackson appointment had thus been crowned with success, it became apparent that the Senate would presently have a chance to investigate another appointee, compared to whom Mr. Jackson is a hidebound Tory. As the new Solicitor General was sworn in. Attorney General Cummings announced his choice for Mr. Jackson's successor in the Department of Justice : Thurman Wesley Arnold...
Leon Trotsky continues from exile to machinate against Joseph Stalin with such dreadful success that, as his agents and fellow conspirators, the 21 who now face death nearly succeeded in remaking the maps of Asia and of Europe by detaching from the Soviet Union and attaching to adjoining Capitalist countries territories with a total area of 625,000 square miles...
...season last spring, Manager Specter and his socialite executive board set out to get 1) a stout purse, 2) a first-rate conductor, 3) top-notch musicians, announced a drive for $300,000, proposed to import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra; and 7) Rumania's Georges Enesco...
...served from 4:30 to 5:30 o'clock, poured by the patronesses. They were Miss Mildred F. Sherman, Mrs. Olive H. Smith, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, and Mrs. Henry Chauncey, P.B.H. officials labeled the occasion a success...
...approached them last year, saying, 'How about donating your service to the Brooks House to put out the first publication of its kind in the Law School? He had added that some of the members, if appointed chairman following him, "might make some money," but that the chances of success looked slight for the first year...